The Sokal Hoax

'But why did I do it? I confess that I'm an unabashed Old Leftist who
never quite understood how deconstruction was supposed to help the
working class. And I'm a stodgy old scientist who believes, naively,
that there exists an external world, that there exist objective truths
about that world, and that my job is to discover some of them.' [1996]

(2) 'Fair enough: anyone who believes that the laws of physics are mere social conventions is invited to try transgressing those conventions from the windows of my apartment. (I live on the twenty-first floor.)' You can read Alan Sokal's gleeful
unmasking of his own hoax as 'A Physicist Experiments With Cultural Studies',
Lingua Franca (May/June 1996), 62-64.